I wonder if reaching a hundred will become common in three or four decades.
Things we have now that Prime universe Trek did not foresee
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I wonder if reaching a hundred will become common in three or four decades.
It not a matter of "for his age," he obviously was physically unsteady, had difficulty walking and could do so only slowly, he lacked vigor and vitality. A twenty year old in the identical condition (and it was a condition) would also be described as frail.
If only Star Trek would have had superior leaders like him, instead of the unimpressive ones we got.
Computer programs that can be duplicated without problems, IE unlike the doctor's.
Similar hair?......lolAT least Captain Kirk wasn't orange.
Actually, he was a bit...
Every leader is superior until they get into office.
Trump has never gotten into office and yet he's far from being superior or even average or mediocre. I shudder to think what getting into office will do to him. We'll be better of never to find that out.
I have a feeling you need to him to get into office to teach those bufoo..the folks who voted for him a harsh lesson in reality. Sadly the ROW might suffer as well. Or Trump might do a flip flop on his supporters since he has been flopping all over the place with his views since time began.
A loose cannon is likely to shoot you, sooner or later, just give it enough time.
Sadly, there is still time....
The UK has an ageing population, more and more senior citizens have the audacity to live way past 90 plus (good for them!)....So it will happen, I just hope the quality of their life will be as good as the quantity
Well, it seems that there are more and more people getting ALzheimer's and sooner. So maybe we will all live to be a hundred but we won't know it. I wonder if it's not even worse than dying young.
If we have the Queen's medical care (and lifestyle) we will be just fine. Woman is 90 and looking good! She is stronger than my dad, and he passed this year in his 80's.
Well, thankfully not everyone get Alzheimer's, even at an advanced age, but the numbers are increasing.
I think its diet related, too much processed and junk food IMO.
That's possible. Do you remember Picard in Night Terrors? He talks about his grandfather and though he never says it. The symptoms he describes are very much those of Alzheimer's and that means that even in the twenty fourth century they have not managed to cure that disease.
I believe in many cases it's worse, by far. I do IT work in nursing homes, and the halls are mostly populated with people who are unaware or confused (either due to their own minds slipping or to the medications they're kept on), or stuck in tight mental loops about something painful to them (usually, that they want to see some loved one who has either died or that rarely/never comes to see them). People are being kept in something very like my idea of Hell for 5 - 30 years because their bodies can function and provide an excuse for the nursing home to draw checks from the government while their actual *lives* are over. Yeah, I know - that might not be for me to say. But it seems pretty apparent, and I can tell you this: it won't happen to me. My spiritual beliefs don't preclude arranging my own exit from this world at what I decide is an appropriate time, thankfully.
I don't think it was Alzheimer's. I think it was Irumodic Syndrome, like old Picard had in "All Good Things". However, that disease was clearly meant to allow them to use an analog of Alzheimer's to tell a story that involved it without giving up hope (and from recent developments, the seeming likelihood) that the actual disease we're familiar with would be preventable by then, so you're still sort of right, even so.
Yes you're right, they've made up a "I can't believe it's not Alzheimer's" disease for the reason you've given. It makes a lot of sense.
However, in another episode (The Battle) Beverly is amazed that Picard would have a headache, but Riker is not, which is rather puzzling and not very consistent.
